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Motorcycle Rentals for High-Adventure Touring

Whether Alaska, the Alps or Route 66, adventurous motorcyclists far from home can rent bikes

By GLENN ADAMS
Source: The Associated Press
VALLEY OF FIRE STATE PARK, Nev.

If you love touring by motorcycle, but your destination is too far from home to take your bike, a rental may be the perfect alternative.

Motorcycle rentals are available almost anywhere worth seeing, whether it’s riding from Chicago to Los Angeles on Route 66, through northwest Canada to Alaska, or even in the Himalayas or the Alps.

My choice was a Harley-Davidson for a ride through an expanse of desert in southern Nevada, where the scorching summer temperatures were matched only by the breathtaking vistas. Petrified sand dunes have been shaped here over the millennia into red formations with illusions of flames that give the place its name and feel: Valley of Fire.

My trip started in Las Vegas, where no fewer than three dealerships offer motorcycle rentals. I took a deep breath when I first gazed at the 1,500-cubic centimeter bike I rented, twice the size of the 750-cubic centimeter BMW I’ve driven for 33 years — and a tad bigger than the motor in at least one car I’ve owned. (Cubic centimeters are a measure of engine power in a motorcycle, like horsepower in a car engine.) But as I became accustomed to the feel of the big machine, I was grateful for its power and weight, which kept the machine stable as it cut effortlessly through gusts of blast-furnace wind that whipped across the highway.

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